A dangerous stir : fear, paranoia, and the making of Reconstruction / Mark Wahlgren Summers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Summers, Mark W. (Mark Wahlgren), 1951- author.

Series:

Civil War America (Series)

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Psychological aspects.

Fear--United States--History--19th century.

Fear.

Anxiety--United States--History--19th century.

Anxiety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reconstruction policy after the Civil War, observes Mark Wahlgren Summers, was shaped not simply by politics, principles, and prejudices. Also at work were fears--often unreasonable fears of renewed civil war and a widespread sense that four years of war had thrown the normal constitutional process so dangerously out of kilter that the republic itself remained in peril. To understand Reconstruction, Summers contends, one must understand that the purpose of the North's war was--first and foremost--to save the Union with its republican institutions intact. During Reconstruction there we

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Empire Day?; 1 Paranoid Politics, 1789-1861; 2 Copperheads and Consolidationists, 1861-1865; 3 Black Scare: The South after Slavery; 4 Have We a Constitution?; 5 Do They Want Still More Blood?: Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction; 6 Horrors on Horrors Accumulate: July 1866; 7 Do You Want Andrew Johnson for President or King?; 8 A Dangerous Stir in Maryland; 9 Impeachment Fevers, 1867; 10 If You Don't Kill the Beast: Impeachment at Last; 11 Let Us Have Peace; 12 The Wolf Who Cried Wolf; Coda: The Dog That Barked Too Much at Night; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A

BC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890883568

9781469610405

146961040X

OCLC:

820787559